. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. AfBIL 19, 1902] &he gveebev txnb gtptftrtantcm 9 HIDALGO'S GOSSIP, j * SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE ^fc We are having a lovely spring for training purposes and there are now some forty horses stabled at the track and all taking their work in good shape. And while the removal of McKinney to your section three years ago has somewhat diminished the interest taken in the breeding of trotters and pacers in this section, yet every once in a while along comes some fairly good one "from next door to no place," as the late Henry Williamson used to say. Zombro is
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. AfBIL 19, 1902] &he gveebev txnb gtptftrtantcm 9 HIDALGO'S GOSSIP, j * SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE ^fc We are having a lovely spring for training purposes and there are now some forty horses stabled at the track and all taking their work in good shape. And while the removal of McKinney to your section three years ago has somewhat diminished the interest taken in the breeding of trotters and pacers in this section, yet every once in a while along comes some fairly good one "from next door to no place," as the late Henry Williamson used to say. Zombro is still with us and making a big season; and I rate him, at his present fee of 850, about as cheap a stallion, when you come to consider his performances, as any trotting bred sire that has ever stood in this State. I can remember when Rattler 2:35} stood at $100; Kentucky Hunter 2:37 at the same fee, and General Taylor and Stock- bridge Chief, neither with records better than 2:41. at J60 each. But those were the days when five dollars would not purchase any more than two dollars will at the present writing, if as much. The good old days of high prices, when everybody had money, are gone and will never return. X hear of many fine two year olds around this neigh- borhood by the chestnut stallion Monterey that was also inquiring if she was thoroughbred. She was, most decidedly, and her breeding is given in full in Volume IV of the American Stud Book, page 33. She was sent here from Jamaica to be bred to Norfolk and remained at Mr. Winters' farm .'our years. He kept writing to the owner for payment and was finally told to keep her for the debt, as the owner was dead and his heirs took no interest in horses. She had eight foals registered as ber produce and several of them were good ones. Atalanta won several good races in this State, while Jesse B. and Lady Foster won races in Oregon. The latter was one of the handsomest mares I ever saw, but I hear of no produce from either her o
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